Some goals of the "UN Millennium Declaration" (A/RES/55/2)

• To halve, by the year 2015: (from 1990 level)
• the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than $1 a day, and
• the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and,
• the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.
• To ensure that, by the year 2015:
• children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that girls and boys will have equal access to all levels of education.
• To reduce, by the year 2015: (from 1990 level)
• maternal mortality by three quarters, and
• under-five child mortality by two thirds [, of their current rates].
• To have, by the year 2015, halted, and begun to reverse:
• the spread of HIV/AIDS,
• the scourge of malaria and
• other major diseases that afflict humanity.
• To provide special assistance to children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
• By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers as proposed in the "Cities Without Slums" initiative.